Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection
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Copyright © 2012 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 30-year-old woman calls you to report a 2-day history of worsening dysuria and urinary urgency and frequency. She reports having no fever, chills, back pain, or vaginal irritation or discharge. One month ago, you treated her with a 3-day course of trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole for presumptive cystitis, and her symptoms resolved. She is otherwise healthy, but this is her third episode in the past year. How should her case be managed?
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